Stop Misuse Of Presidential Power

Both parties need to rein in President Obama's executive order agenda, although he is not setting precedent. He is legislating, creating laws, beyong his Constitutional constraints. The President has disdained the separation of powers by by-passing Congress and ignoring the Supreme Court's legal opinions.

Regardless of the president's intent, he has only the executive power to uphold and execute laws that Congress makes and the Supreme Court adjudicates as constitutional. The restraints put on the office of the president are meant to prevent one person, a dictator, or a conceptually malevolent or even too benevolent a person, from taking America in an unconstitutional direction.

The president cannot set the minimum wage or impose gun control. He cannot create rules at his whim. He cannot wage war or make treaties without congressional approval. It is important, in this last year of his administration, to curb President Obama's appetite for doing, by executive order, what he thinks is best for America.

The president could be wrong, and the Constitution protects us from a president's unilateral decisions -- and his self-anointment.